An independent investigation by a special counsel is tailor made for the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal. In instances like this, national leaders like the President and Attorney General of the United States must transcend politics and make restoring trust in government the paramount issue. 

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The outside group’s pressure campaign has been a multi-pronged offensive with ex-military officials rallying the grassroots base while Washington operatives at American Crossroads, Citizens United and others have mounted an inside-the-Beltway campaign with online videos, letters to Congress and Twitter activity. 

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To conservatives, the IRS's scrutiny of groups according to their names and mission statements between 2010 and 2012 put the weight of its enforcement power on the Democrats' side of the ledger. 

"I think that if you look at the IRS scandal, we see that the left will stop at nothing to thwart the conservative movement and try to freeze and really intimidate people from political speech," said David Bossie, president of the conservative 501(c)4 Citizens United. 

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In a case concerning the politicization of the IRS, people serving at the pleasure of the President at DOJ cannot be trusted to conduct an independent investigation because there is a conflict of interest. 

For example, if the investigation were to lead to the White House, should someone appointed by (or essentially working for) President Obama be expected to be able to run an unbiased investigation that could make their boss or people around him look bad (or worse)?  The idea that AG Holder apparently believes that an independent investigation by his department into this matter is possible is troubling.  Holder’s first instinct in this case should have been to appoint a special counsel to get this case out of the hands of the Obama Administration and presidential political appointees.  

The American people will not and should not stand for a political investigation of the politicization of the IRS.  If AG Holder won’t appoint a special counsel himself, President Obama should have the wisdom and sense of what’s right to make him do it.  The person appointed to be special counsel should have a reputation for impartiality with impeccable credentials for following the facts wherever they lead without concern for politics.  Only this will restore trust with the American people.  

This decision – whichever way it goes – will be remembered by historians as a critical moment in the Obama Administration. 

Call AG Eric Holder at (202) 353-1555 and tell him the right thing to do is to appoint a special counsel to investigate the IRS before all credibility is lost. 

A Republican poll gives state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) an 8 percentage point lead over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the race for Virginia governor, a reversal of an earlier poll released Thursday. 

The survey, conducted by Wenzel Strategies on behalf of Citizens United and shared with The Hill, gives Cuccinelli 44 percent support to 36 percent support for McAuliffe. 

Read more at The Hill here.  

Citizens United released a poll today conducted by Wenzel Strategies showing Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli holding an eight point lead over Terry McAuliffe for Virginia’s race for Governor.  The poll was conducted via telephone survey of likely General Election voters from May 14 -15, included 800 respondents, and has a 3.44% margin of error. Read the Toplines here.  Read the Polling Memo here.  

Poll Results by Wenzel Strategies: 

Virginia Gubernatorial Election  

Ken Cuccinelli – 44%

Terry McAuliffe – 36%

Note Sure – 21% 

David Bossie, president of Citizens United, said the IRS scandal is a “clear example of the Chicago-style, win-at-all-costs politics that Obama brought to Washington.” 

Bossie said Obama set the tone for targeting political critics when he criticized the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which barred the government from limiting corporate spending to influence election campaigns. 

Read more at The Hill here. 

Meanwhile, outside of Congress, the president of Citizens United, a conservative organization at the center of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision, reacted with anger at the suggestion by Pelosi that the court case was at least partly at fault for IRS conduct. 

“Nancy Pelosi and her liberal allies’ obsession with the Citizens United Supreme Court case has reached a new low, with those on the left attempting to blame the Citizens United case for the IRS using Nixonian tactics against conservative groups,” David Bossie said. “It is imperative that Congress and all other appropriate authorities investigate this issue and follow whatever road it leads down.” 

He added, “Using the IRS for political purposes is shameful and Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in Congress must join their Republican colleagues and get to the bottom of this apparent abuse of power.” 

Read more at National Journal here. 

Washington, DC -- Citizens United President David N. Bossie issued the following statement in response to Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement his Department of Justice would investigate the Internal Revenue Service scandal. 

“In light of the recent news involving the Department of Justice subpoenaing the phones of the Associated Press, its imperative a special counsel investigate the ongoing IRS scandal. It shouldn't be too much to ask that a department currently involved in a major national scandal be investigating a scandal in another department.” said David N. Bossie, President of Citizens United.  “We are calling for an independent, special counsel to investigate the Internal Revenue Service as well as the Department of Justice Scandal. The fox cannot guard the hen house.” 

David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United, the group that brought the initial lawsuit that the Supreme Court ruled on, said Monday Mrs. Pelosi should go after the IRS, not conservative groups. 

“It appears that the left will stop at nothing in its quest to silence those who believe differently than them,” Mr. Bossie said in a statement, adding that Mrs. Pelosi’s attack was misguided and that “nowhere in Pelosi’s statement released today does she call for a congressional investigation.” 

Read more at the Washington Times here.